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Free Download Francisco José B.S. Leandro, "Portuguese-speaking Small Island Developing States: The Development Journeys of Cabo Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, and T"
English | ISBN: 9819933811 | 2023 | 534 pages | PDF | 17 MB
This book assesses the dynamics, challenges and achievements of the development processes of three Portuguese-speaking Small Island Developing States (PSSIDS) – Cabo Verde, São Tome and Príncipe, and Timor-Leste. Important lessons are drawn from those processes, which are relevant for policymakers, as well as for their bilateral and multilateral development partners, including international organizations such as United Nations or the Community of Portuguese Language Countries. To that end, the book includes contributions to the academic literature about SIDS, an area of research that has been significantly overlooked. The conclusions would be of interest to readers as a lead up to the fiftieth anniversary of their independence.

Free Download The Spanish and Portuguese in the New World: The History and Legacy of the First European Rivalry in the Americas (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868708299 | 2024 | 6 hours and 34 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Victoria Woodson

Free Download The Dramatic Rise and Fall of the Portuguese Empire: The History and Legacy of Portugal’s Mercantile Empire across the World (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868739149 | 2023 | 4 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 243 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Victoria Woodson
Trade was able to increase in Europe around the world due to more effective ships being introduced, and some of the improvements that were made to the ships were first introduced by the Chinese. The introduction of multiple mast ships and the sternpost rudders allowed the ships to travel quicker and be more maneuverable. By the start of the 15th century, ships were now much larger and able to support long distance travel with a minimum number of crew aboard. With that, the Portuguese started exploring the west coast of Africa and the Atlantic under orders from Prince Henry the Navigator. At this point, Europeans had not yet been capable of navigating completely around Africa since the ships being built were not yet fully capable of being able to sail very far from the coast and navigation in open waters was difficult, but the Portuguese continued pushing down the western African coast looking for ways to bypass the Ottomans and Muslims of Africa who had been making overland trade routes difficult.

Free Download John Whitlam, "The Routledge Intermediate Brazilian Portuguese Reader "
English | ISBN: 0415693322 | 2013 | 144 pages | PDF | 1047 KB
The Routledge Intermediate Brazilian Reader is a comprehensive reader aimed at intermediate level students of Brazilian Portuguese. The aim is to provide a structured language teaching resource that is enjoyable and stimulating for learners, but that also provides meaningful cultural contexts.

Free Download Mobile Library, "1 – Portuguese – Learn Portuguese with Art: Learn how to describe what you see, with bilingual text in English Portuguese, as you explore beautiful artwork."
English | 2020 | ASIN: B0852TJ1NS | EPUB | pages: 17 | 6.3 mb
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Free Download John B Yorko, "Battlefield Integration: Wellington’s Use of Portuguese and Spanish Forces During the 1812 Salamanca Campaign"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1249918383 | EPUB | pages: 72 | 1.7 mb
This thesis examines how the Duke of Wellington used Portuguese and Spanish forces during his 1812 Salamanca campaign. Wellington assessed the strengths and weaknesses of his allies, and then leveraged them throughout the campaign within the constraints of dissimilar command relationships. He was able to supplement his British formations largely with Portuguese forces, as well as and prevent the numerically superior French from massing on his army through influence and interaction with Spanish forces. Scrutinizing how Wellington engaged in military actions with allies who had divergent political interests and varying degrees of military capability offers lessons in coalition warfare that are still applicable today.

Free Download Navigations: The Portuguese Discoveries and the Renaissance by Malyn Newitt
English | July 14th, 2023 | ISBN: 1789147026 | 368 pages | True EPUB | 14.48 MB
A critical reassessment of world-shaping Portuguese voyages of discovery that places these quests in historical context.

Free Download Cristina Sousa, "Intermediate Portuguese: A Grammar and Workbook "
English | ISBN: 0415633222 | 2024 | 212 pages | PDF | 1407 KB
Intermediate Portuguese: A Grammar and Workbook is an accessible reference grammar presenting twenty-two individual grammar points in realistic contexts with practise exercises in each unit designed to reinforce and consolidate learning.

Free Download Philip J. Havik, "Creole Societies in the Portuguese Colonial Empire"
English | ISBN: 1443880272 | 2015 | 255 pages | PDF | 1016 KB
In 2004, a conference was held at King’s College London to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Charles Boxer. The theme of the conference was the development of the culturally mixed ‘Portuguese’ societies in Asia, Africa and America, which reflected Boxer’s own interest in the social history of Portugal’s overseas empire. Although the conference papers were published by Bristol University, this volume is long out of print and the outstanding quality of many of the contributions has made it necessary for this collection to be republished. Portuguese overseas expansion over a period of five centuries led to the formation of many mixed or creole communities which drew culturally not only on Portugal, but also on indigenous societies. This cross-cultural interaction gave rise to a creole ‘Portuguese’ identity that in many cases outlasted the formal empire itself. Reflecting upon the main tenets of Boxer’s work, this collection provides a broad geographical perspective upon areas of Portuguese presence in Guinea, Cape Verde, Angola, Sao Tome, Brazil and Goa. The chapters cover a wide range of social strata, including plantation slave and maroon communities, private settler-traders and pirates, indigenous trade-diasporas, and Luso-African, Luso-Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian groups, as well as the formation of Creole elites against the background of shifting racial, gender, ethnic, linguistic and religious boundaries. As such, this collection represents an exercise in ‘subaltern’ history which shows that the informal social relations were often more important in the long term than the formal structures of empire.

Free Download Victor K. Mendes, "Portuguese Literature and the Environment"
English | ISBN: 1498595375 | 2019 | 236 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Portuguese Literature and the Environment explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from Medieval times to the present. From the centrality of nature in Medieval poetry, through the bucolic verse of the Renaissance, all the way to the Romantic and post-Romantic nostalgia for a pristine natural or rural landscape under threat in the wake of industrialization, Portuguese literature has frequently reflected on the connection between humans and the natural world. More recently, the postcolonial turn in contemporary literature has highlighted the contrast between the environment of the former colonies and that of Portugal.